UPS and Solar Systems

The dusty town of Naivasha sits within the Great Rift Valley, where the African continent is being divided into 2. About 90 km northwest of Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi, …

Ethiopia and China in June launched a joint research and extension center supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to fast-track renewable energy development in Ethiopia. The Joint Research …

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa declared last month that Tanzania’s transition to clean energy was among key issues on the national agenda. Mr Majaliwa’s statement come a day after Tanzania Electric …

Africa-focused solar home systems provider, Sun King (formerly Greenlight Planet), and the New York-based global bank, Citi, have collaborated to establish a scalable loan instrument to finance off-grid solar systems …

Ignite Power, a UAE-based solar solutions provider in Africa, has acquired the solar solutions portfolio of Mwezi, a Kenyan solar energy distributor. Mwezi has been operating in Kenya’s solar energy …

Kenya is definitely the king of renewables in Africa. It is 3rd place in the world for the proportion of its electricity from renewable sources, behind only Costa Rica and …

Kenya is constructing 136 solar-powered mini-grids in remote regions that are not adequately supplied by the national electrical grid, the country’s energy minister announced on 1st May 2023. Off-grid solar …

The Zambian company Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) is commissioning a solar PV plant in the Kitwe district. The plant, which has a capacity of 33 MWp, required an investment of …

Listed tea processing giant, Tanganda Tea Company has invested a total US$8 million in solar projects in a development that will cut off electricity costs for the company. The development …